Debra A. Castillo
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature

Debra A. Castillo specializes in contemporary narrative from the Spanish-speaking world, gender studies, cultural theory, and visual studies. She is author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Talking Back: Strategies for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (l992), Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction (l998), and (cowritten with María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba) Border Women: Writing from La Frontera (2002). Her most recent book is Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature. (SUNY, 2004), a book that focuses on Spanish-language US writers.

She has also published nearly 100 articles and reviews, mostly in refereed journals, and is frequently called on for invited lectures and distinguished lecturer appointments in the US, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. With the theater troupe Teatrotaller, she has been honored to participate in invited theater performances in various regional universities in the northeast USA, as well as in Mexico, Belgium, and Canada.

Among the courses she teaches regularly are Hispanic Theater Production (Teatrotaller), Latin American Women Writers, Post-Revolutionary Mexican Fiction, U.S. Latino/a Prose, and Latin American Film.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature. Tallahassee: Florida State UP, l984.

Talking Back: Toward a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, l992.

Trans. and Intro., Tijuana: Stories on the Border by Federico Campbell. Berkeley: U of California P., l995.

Easy Women: and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction, Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P., l998.

ed., with Mary Jo Dudley. Transforming Cultures in the Americas. Ithaca: Latin American Studies Program, 2000.

ed., with Mary Jo Dudley and Breny Mendoza. Rethinking Feminisms in the Americas. Ithaca: Latin American Studies Program, 2001.

ed., with José Edmundo Paz Soldán. Beyond the Lettered City: Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Hispanic Issues series. Garland, 2000.

Lecturas interculturales (with Julio López Arias). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland, 2002.

Border Women: Writing from La Frontera. (with Socorro Tabuenca Córboba). Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002.

Re-dreaming America: Toward a Bilingual Understanding of American Literature. Albany: SUNY, 2004.

In progress

Este ambiente de noche: La prostitución femenina en Tijuana (with María Gudelia Rangel Gómez, Armando Rosas Solís, and Carlos Castillo-Chavez).

Umbilical Objects (with Edmundo Paz-Soldán and Javier Durán)